斯蒂夫·乔布斯找到了人生所钟爱的事业,但是最初创业的过程并不是那么容易。他也同样经历过失败,但是并没有因此而气馁,而是继续他所热爱的事业。在我们的人生中,我们同样应该坚持做自己钟爱的,向着前方不懈地努力。
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My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky—I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents"garage when I was 20.We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a$2 billion company with over 4000 employees.We had just released our finest creation—the Macintosh—a year earlier, and I had just turned 30.And then I got fired.How can you get fired from a company you started?Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well.But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out.AWhen we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.So at 30 I was out.And very publicly out.What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn"t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down-that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me.BI met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley.CBut something slowly began to dawn on me—I still loved what I did.The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit.I had been rejected, but I was still in love.And so I decided to start over.
难点重点,一目了然!
长难句解析Sentence Structures
AWhen we did, our Board of Directors sided with him.
当我们反目的时候,董事会站在了他那边。
side with支持某人,站在某人一边。例如:She sided with her brother against the others in the class.她在班上支持哥哥反对其他同学。
BI met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly.
我去见了戴维·帕卡德和鲍勃·诺伊斯,想为把事情弄得这么糟糕而道歉。
screw up表示把(事物)弄糟,搞乱。例如:Don"t ask them to organize the trip, they"ll only screw everything up.别让他们组织此行,他们准得把一切都搞糟了。
CBut something slowly began to dawn on me—I still loved what I did.
渐渐地我开始明白,我仍然热爱过去做的一切。
dawn on逐渐明白。例如:The truth began to dawn on him.他开始弄明白真相。
104.Love and Loss(2)爱与失去
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斯蒂夫·乔布斯让自己真正满意的是一直做自己认为有意义的工作。而使自己的工作有意义,就要热爱自己的工作。如果还没有发现自己喜欢什么,就要不断去寻找,直到找到自己喜欢的东西。
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I didn"t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me.The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything.It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.AIn a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple"s current renaissance.And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.?
BI"m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn"t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.Don"t lose faith.I"m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.You"ve got to find what you love.And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers.Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.If you haven"t found it yet, keep looking.Don"t settle.As with all matters of the heart, you"ll know when you find it.CAnd, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.So keep looking until you find it.Don"t settle.
难点重点,一目了然!
长难句解析Sentence Structures
AIn a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple"s current renaissance.
在后来的一系列运作中,苹果公司收购了NeXT,我又回到了苹果公司。我们在NeXT发展的技术在苹果这次的崛起中发挥了关键的作用。
a turn of events指无法预料的情况的改变或发展。
BI"m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn"t been fired from Apple.
我可以非常肯定,如果我不被苹果公司开除的话,这一切绝不会发生。
pretty 是副词,表示相当。
CAnd, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
就像任何真诚的关系,随着岁月的流逝只会越来越紧密。
roll on 时间不断流逝。例如:The years rolled on.岁月流逝。
105.Facing Death(1)面对死亡(1)
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人在面对死亡的时候,可能才会发现自己生命中最重要的东西。记住自己随时都有可能死去,是斯蒂夫·乔布斯所知道的防止患得患失的最好办法。我们应该明白人生中我们所珍惜和珍视的是什么。
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My third story is about death.
When I was 17,I read a quote that went something like:A“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you"ll most certainly be right.”It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself:“If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?”And whenever the answer has been“No”for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.